The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.